Partner of Elgar Parishad accused Navlakha surrenders liquor, cigarettes after NIA raises objection to it

By PTI

MUMBAI: Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case accused Gautam Navlakha’s companion Sahba Husain has surrendered her liquor bottles and cigarette packets to police after the National Investigation Agency raised an objection over such gadgets dropped at the premises the place he’s at present below home arrest, an official mentioned on Monday.

On November 19, 70-year-old Navlakha was launched from jail and brought to the home within the Belapur-Agroli space of neighbouring Navi Mumbai city to be saved below home arrest for a month.

Husain, who’s staying with 70-year-old Navlakha, had introduced two liquor bottles and cigarettes for private consumption, the official mentioned.

She had declared about the identical to the NIA officers once they got here for a home search earlier than Navlakha was introduced there.

She had informed the probe company sleuths that the gadgets had been for her consumption and never for Navlakha, who neither consumes liquor nor smokes, the official mentioned.

The NIA sleuths, nonetheless, took objection to the gadgets and therefore, these got into the custody of the CBD Belapur police, he mentioned.

Husain then wrote to the NIA, informing that she has surrendered the liquor bottles to native police, the official mentioned.

She has permission to exit of the premises. Navlakha is allowed to exit for a stroll for 40 minutes a day with sufficient safety, he mentioned.

The Supreme Court final month granted Navlakha’s plea in search of home arrest on medical grounds.

The activist claims to be affected by a number of illnesses.

He was in jail since April 2020 after his arrest within the case, which pertains to alleged inflammatory speeches made on the ‘Elgar Parishad’ conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which Pune police claimed triggered violence the subsequent day close to the Koregaon Bhima warfare memorial on the outskirts of the western Maharashtra metropolis.

According to police, folks linked to banned the CPI (Maoists) had organised the programme. The case, during which over a dozen activists and academicians have been named as accused, was later handed over to the NIA.

MUMBAI: Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case accused Gautam Navlakha’s companion Sahba Husain has surrendered her liquor bottles and cigarette packets to police after the National Investigation Agency raised an objection over such gadgets dropped at the premises the place he’s at present below home arrest, an official mentioned on Monday.

On November 19, 70-year-old Navlakha was launched from jail and brought to the home within the Belapur-Agroli space of neighbouring Navi Mumbai city to be saved below home arrest for a month.

Husain, who’s staying with 70-year-old Navlakha, had introduced two liquor bottles and cigarettes for private consumption, the official mentioned.

She had declared about the identical to the NIA officers once they got here for a home search earlier than Navlakha was introduced there.

She had informed the probe company sleuths that the gadgets had been for her consumption and never for Navlakha, who neither consumes liquor nor smokes, the official mentioned.

The NIA sleuths, nonetheless, took objection to the gadgets and therefore, these got into the custody of the CBD Belapur police, he mentioned.

Husain then wrote to the NIA, informing that she has surrendered the liquor bottles to native police, the official mentioned.

She has permission to exit of the premises. Navlakha is allowed to exit for a stroll for 40 minutes a day with sufficient safety, he mentioned.

The Supreme Court final month granted Navlakha’s plea in search of home arrest on medical grounds.

The activist claims to be affected by a number of illnesses.

He was in jail since April 2020 after his arrest within the case, which pertains to alleged inflammatory speeches made on the ‘Elgar Parishad’ conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which Pune police claimed triggered violence the subsequent day close to the Koregaon Bhima warfare memorial on the outskirts of the western Maharashtra metropolis.

According to police, folks linked to banned the CPI (Maoists) had organised the programme. The case, during which over a dozen activists and academicians have been named as accused, was later handed over to the NIA.